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Thom Yorke has a beautiful brain
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My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye.
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The band name came about when the original vocalist died when a huge radio fell on his head. He trotted about for a while dancing with the radio on his head, before he died of asphyxiation and blood loss. *Laughs* it was hilarious
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My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes.
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If you're bored of the songs, you're bored of the songs. There's not much you can do.
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I tell you what's really ridiculous--going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you're already dead.
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Ironically my brother died in a car accident shortly after Airbag was recorded. He's not an identical twin so I didn't care.
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If Bono can release an album out of nowhere then so can I!
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My name may be Thom Yorke, but only I can call me Thom Yorke.
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Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach the island of Optimistic. But seriously, kill yourself.
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The thing I remember most about America is that it's silly. That can be quite a relief at times.
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You do it to yourself, you do, And that's what really hurts, Is that you do it to yourself, Just you and no one else, You do it to yourself...
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And then computers got to a point where you could just record directly into them. So when that happened, funny enough, I thought, Right, I'm going to learn how to do this because then I can understand that part.
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Technology is killing us. We think it's helping us but it's killing us. Don't ask me why because I don't have the time or the attention span to complete that thought. Now let's all hold hands and draw spider monkeys.
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I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.
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I'm not taking things quite so seriously as before. Especially myself.
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I'm absolutely terrified that people can get into cars. It's like the car is a face, and the headlight is eyes, and when you open the car door it's like you're climbing into the ears. (I cannot) be inside a giant rolling robot head.
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I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans.
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When I was four I read the story of horton hears a who and I cried. I wanted to eat that elephant.
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When I go forwards, you go backwards And somewhere we will meet.
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We're at a time when we are being presented with undeniable changes in the global climate and fundamental issues that affect every single one of us, and it's the time we're listening to the most hokey shite on the radio and watching vacuous bullshit celebrities being vacuous bullshit celebrities and desperately trying to forget about everything. Which is fine, you know, but personally speaking, I can't do that.
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I am the greatest thing to happen to black music.
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I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant.
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I don't think I have a superiority complex. I have a "you're not Thom Yorke" complex.
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